A Lawyer's Handbook for Enforcing Foreign Judgments in the United States and Abroad

Robert E. Lutz is Professor of Law at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, California. He has held the Treusch and Buchalter Chairs at the law school and teaches a wide range of public international law, international commercial law and dispute-resolution subjects. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the Pacific Council on International Policy (affiliate of the Council on Foreign Relations), and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He arbitrates public international and private international commercial disputes, and actively serves on NAFTA binational arbitration panels and is a listed panelist for the World Trade Organization. He has authored numerous articles, books and legislation including a leading textbook which he co-authored called International Environment Law & Policy (Aspen, 1998).

Acknowledgments; Part I. Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in the US: 1. Overview; 2. Phase one: before recognition; 3. Phase two: converting the judgment; 4. Phase three: executing a converted judgment in the US courts; 5. Conclusion; 6. Bibliography; 7. Forms; Part II. Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Abroad: 8. Overview; 9. How to identify and select foreign counsel; 10. Documentation for enforcement; 11. Understanding foreign enforcement frameworks; 12. Conclusion; 13. Bibliography; Part III. The Future of Enforcing Foreign Judgments: 14. Introduction; 15. Hague Convention; Part IV. International Jurisdiction and Judgments Project of the American Law Institute: 16. International trade flexibility and the enforcement of foreign judgments.